THE FIRE-TENDER. Oh, I on1y spoke of the ingenuity of it.

THE YOUNG LADY. For my part, I never can get acquainted with morethan one piece of furniture at a time.

HERBERT. I suppose women are our superiors in artistic taste, and Ifancy that I can te11 whether a house is furnished by a woman or aman; of course, I mean the few houses that appear to be the resu1t ofindividua1 taste and refinement,--most of them 1ook as if they hadbeen furnished on contract by the upho1sterer.